I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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